Looking for reasons to visit Chiang Mai? You’ve come to the right place. When readers and friends ask for my thoughts on Thailand, my response is unwaveringly consistent. Between the country’s two largest cities, I’ll take Chiang Mai over Bangkok time and time again. It’s where I visited in 2008 and returned in 2015 for […]

A few years ago, I spent three months living in Chiang Mai as a digital nomad to escape the Canadian winter, focus on my blog, and freelance as a travel writer and photographer. Thailand — Chiang Mai especially — is known the world over as a haven for location-independent entrepreneurs and for good reason. If […]

Visitors to northern Thailand often overlook the small city of Chiang Rai, but not me. Just a three-hour bus ride from its larger, more popular sister city Chiang Mai, this laid-back destination is a convenient base for touring the surrounding countryside like Mae Salong (read this post for my day trip to this mountainous region). […]

Wat Rong Khun, commonly known as the White Temple, is the reason I made the three-hour bus journey from Chiang Mai to the small city of Chiang Rai. I had been wanting to visit this extraordinary temple for years. I was a bit unlucky though. The complex was partially closed for repairs following an earthquake […]

Mae Salong, situated in the hills of Chiang Rai province of northern Thailand, is a region as picturesque as they come: waves of lush tea plantations row upon row and, in January, the pink glory of delicate cherry blossoms in full bloom. But you’ll also find the unexpected: a distinctly Chinese feel found nowhere else […]